July 18

Holidays

• Uruguay - Constitution Day

Events

• 2019 War in Afghanistan: Twelve people are killed and over 80 injured by two car bombs at a gate outside police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
• 2018 Syrian Civil War: Siege of al-Fu'ah and Kafriya: The evacuations of Shia towns Al-Fu'ah and Kafriya in the northern Idlib Governorate begin, as part of a deal between rebel forces and the Syrian government. (Al Jazeera)
• 2017 Earthquakes in 2017: A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, west of the Alaskan Aleutian Island of Attu, in the North Pacific Ocean. No immediate reports of casualties or damage; a tsunami warning was cancelled. (Reuters) (AP) (USGS)
• 2016 Yemeni Civil War : At least six Yemeni soldiers are killed in suicide bombings near the city of Al Mukalla. (Reuters)
• 2015 Persecution of Hazara people in Quetta: In a failed suicide blast, a security guard intercepted a suicide bomber clad in female clothing attempting to enter Quetta’s Hazara town, who then detonated their device that contained 6 to 7 kg (13 to 15 lb) of explosive material, killing themselves and the guard. (Dawn).
• 2014 2014 insurgency in Donbass:: US President Barack Obama says the United States has "increasing confidence" that the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came from Russian separatists in Ukraine - and that Russia bears responsibility for the crisis. (New York Times)
• 2013 Eight Afghan labourers are killed on their way to work at a U.S. military base in Logar Province. (BBC)
• 2012 2012 Burgas bus bombing:
• 2011 Arab Spring:
• 2010 14 inmates are freed from a jail in Farah after a successful prison break led by the Taliban. (Aljazeera)
• 2009 Last surviving Battle of Jutland veteran and last surviving founder member of the Royal Air Force Henry Allingham dies at the age of 113. At the time of his death he was the oldest living man in the world. (BBC) (AFP) (RTÉ)
• 2008 Warner Bros. Pictures releases the film The Dark Knight to theaters in the USA and Canada. The film sets a one-day US box office record, generating ticket sales of US$66.4 million on opening day. The opening weekend also sets a record, taking in US$155 million.
• 2007 At the height of rush hour in New York City a major steam pipe bursts, releasing millions of gallons of boiling water and super heated steam. Only one fatality occurs, a pedestrian who goes into cardiac arrest.
• 2006 The ''SS Nomadic'', the last floating link to ''Titanic'', returns home to a large reception in Belfast.
• 2005 Eight former Serbian secret police officers, and supporters of Slobodan Milošević, have been found guilty of the murder of former President Ivan Stambolić and sentenced to between 15 and 40 years in prison. (BBC)
• 2004 The trial for the murder of Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi in Iran ended abruptly on the second day of the proceedings. The lawyers of the Kazemi family insisted that the time has not been enough for proofs to be given, witnesses to be brought to court, and the murderer to be identified.
• 2003 U.S. Basketball: Eagle County, Colorado District Attorney Mark Hurlbert announces that Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has been charged with one count of felony sexual assault, stemming from a June 30 incident at a gated resort involving a 19-year-old woman.
• 2002 Patents: Forgent Networks asserts that it owns and will enforce patent rights on the widely used JPEG image compression standard which is used widely on the World Wide Web. The announcement creates a furore remisicent of Unisys' attempts to assert its rights over the GIF image compression standard.
• 2001 In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel sparking a fire that will last days and virtually shut down downtown Baltimore (see Howard Street Tunnel fire).
• 1996 Battle of Mullaitivu. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 Army soldiers.
• 1995 DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 die
• 1994 Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
• 1993 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St. George
• 1992 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith
• 1991 Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants
• 1989 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)
• 1988 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship
• 1987 Molly Yard elected new president of US National Organization for Women.
• 1986 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld
• 1984 Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco
• 1983 Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
• 1982 Blues in the Night closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 performances
• 1981 Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
• 1980 Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly France
• 1979 Gold hits record US$303.85 an ounce in London, England.
• 1978 Egyptian and Israeli officials begin two days of talks.
• 1977 Vietnam becomes member of UN
• 1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
• 1972 Egypt President Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out
• 1971 Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France
• 1970 Boy Friend closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances
• 1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
• 1968 Intel incorporates.
• 1967 Silver hits record US$1.87 an ounce in New York.
• 1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
• 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open
• 1964 Race riot in Harlem, New York City; riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn).
• 1963 Failed military coup in Syria
• 1962 Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison
• 1960 1st UN troops reach Congo
• 1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
• 1955 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK-record)
• 1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament
• 1952 KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution.
• 1948 Marinka opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 168 performances
• 1947 British seize Exodus 1947 ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
• 1944 7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
• 1943 British assault on Catania Sicily
• 1942 First legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens.
• 1941 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
• 1940 British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure
• 1938 Douglas Wrong Way Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left New York for California
• 1936 In Spanish Morocco, military rebels attempt a coup d'etat against the legitimacy of the Spanish government. This will lead to the Spanish Civil War.
• 1935 Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
• 1932 US and Canada sign a treaty to develop Saint Lawrence Seaway.
• 1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
• 1930 SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
• 1925 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
• 1921 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
• 1918 US and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I.
• 1915 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins and ends with loss of 280,000 men
• 1914 US army air service first comes into being, in the Signal Corps.
• 1913 After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk.
• 1912 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
• 1907 French troops occupy Casablanca
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Famous Birthday

• Nelson Mandela

  South African President, a civil rights...

• Vin Diesel

  American actor who came to Steven...

• Kristen Bell

  American actress.

• Wendy Williams

  TV Show Host.

• Elsa Pataky

  Spanish actress.

• Chace Crawford

  American actor.

• Maria Pacôme

  French actress and playwright.

• Elizabeth Gilbert

  American author.

• Audrey Landers
• James Brolin

  American actor; the handsome 6'4" actor...

• Elizabeth McGovern

  American actress.

• Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón
• Paul Verhoeven

  Director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total...

• John Glenn

  American astronaut, one of the original...

• Kelly Reilly

  English actress.

• Eva Ionesco
• Screamin' Jay Hawkins

  American musician (Born 1929).

• Michiel Huisman

  TV Actor.

• Red Skelton

  American film, nightclub and...

• Lee Arenberg

  American actor and screenwriter.

• Hume Cronyn

  Canadian-American actor producer and...

• Joe Torre

  American athlete, pro baseball player...

• Jared Hess

  American film director and screenwriter.

• Grant Bowler

  New Zealand-Australian actor.

• Dion DiMucci

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist...

• Margo Martindale

  American actress.

• Ambyr Childers
• Hampton Fancher
• Phil Harris

  Rocker (Ace).

• Richard Dix

  American actor; durable cowboy star from...

• Shaun Micallef

  Australian comedian actor producer and...

• Marvin Miller

  St. Louis, Missouri -- Actor (Space...

• Tom Cullen

  Actor.

• Michael Medwin

  English actor (Four in a Jeep, Scrooge,...

• Harriet Nelson

  American singer and actress (d. 1994).

• John Stuart

  Scottish-English actor (d. 1979).

• Anne-Marie Johnson

  Los Angeles, California -- Actress (In...

• James Cagney

  Actor.

• Burt Kwouk

  English actor.

• Lupe Velez

  Mexican-American actress who, as a...

• Jane Frazee

  Duluth, Minnesota -- Actress / singer...

• Chill Wills

  Seagoville, Texas -- Actor (Fronteir...

• Priyanka Chopra

  Movie Actress.

• Mélissa Theuriau

  French journalist and news anchor.

• Richard Branson

  British entrepreneur who is the founder...

• Hunter S Thompson

  American journalist and author (Born...

• MIA (artist)
• Lee Taemin

  South Korean singer, dancer and actor...

• Henri Salvador

  French Caribbean singer.

• Madame Soleil
• Soundarya
• Elio di Rupo
• Jean Yanne

  French actor, director, producer, comic...

• Titoff (humorist)
• Ian Stewart

  Scottish-British musician and rock star,...

• Lupe Vélez

  Mexican-American actress and dancer (d....

• Steve Forbes

  American publishing executive who...

• Mélina Robert-Michon

  French discus thrower.

• Daron Malakian

  American guitarist (System of a Down,...

• La Grande Sophie
• Jack Layton

  Canadian politician, leader of the New...

• Nick Faldo

  British golfer, 6' 3" winner of five...

• René Dary
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Russian writer, most popular...

• Irène Tharin
• Aaron Beck

  American psychiatrist and academic.

• Thomas Kuhn

  American physicist historian and...

• Hopsin

  Rapper.

• Nathalie Sarraute

  Russian-born French writer (Born 1900).

• Michael Erlewine

  American astrologer and co-founder of...

• Abdel-Kader Chékhémani
• Valerie Cruz

  American actress.

• Ricky Skaggs

  American Country-Western singer whose...

• Alexander Morozevich

  Russian chess player and author.

• Robin MacDonald
• Penny Hardaway

  American basketball player, he became a...

• Dick Button

  American ice skating champion, the...

• Prince Alexander of Belgium
• Jerry Richardson

  American sports team owner, the head of...

• Darlene Conley

  American actress (d. 2007).

• Pierre Sabbagh

  A major personality in French...

• Gino Bartali

  Italian cyclist, nicknamed "Gino the...

• Springfield (Missouri)
• Billy Norwich

  American writer, a widely syndicated...

• Cheryl Casone

  American news anchor.

• Michel Conil-Lacoste
• Josepha Mendels

  Dutch teacher, journalist, feminist...

• Giacinto Facchetti
• Bernard Pons

  French physician and politician.

• Andrei Gromyko

  Belarusian-Russian economist and...

• Luigi di Bella
• Kenneth Armitage

  English sculptor.

• Derek Anderson

  American basketball player, a guard for...

• Bernard du Boucheron
• Richard Mogey

  American executive director of the...

• Alexis Flores
• Carl Fontana
• Leandro Faggin

  Italian cyclist, the winner of a gold...

• Clifford Odets

  US playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57.

• Benjamin Vautier
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Famous Deaths

• Jack Earle

  American actor and sideshow performer...

• Machine Gun Kelly

  American gangster (Born 1895).

• Jack Hawkins

  Actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies...

• James Oliver Huberty

  Shot by police after killing 21 in...

• Fabio Casartelli

  Italian athlete, an Olympic Gold Medal...

• Gerry Boulet

  Canadian musician, a song-writer and...

• Jean Negulesco

  Craiova, Romania -- Director (Johnny...

• Georges Dargaud

  French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies...

• Eugene Shoemaker

  American astrogeologist and U.S.

• Carl Clinton Van Doren

  US literary (The Nation), dies at 64.

• Henry Farman

  French aviation pioneer (double decker),...

• John Gobau

  Flem / Dutch actor (Death of Business...

• Barbara Pepper

  Actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies...

• Gilberto Freye

  Brazilian sociologist / writer, dies at...

• Robert Davis

  Dies of emphysema at 76.

• Sergei Y Vozovikov

  Russian major / Cosmonaut, dies in...

• Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin

  Chief designer of Soviet launch pads.

• Hans Fellner

  Bookseller, dies at 71.

• Paul Saintenoy

  Belgian architect (Born 1862).

• Shahnawaz Bhutto

  son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (Born 1958).

• James Hatfield

  American author (Born 1958).

• Victor Emery

  British theoretical physicist (Born...

• Rebecca Schaeffer is shot by a crazed fan

  prompting California to pass America's...

• Benjamin C Truman

  American journalist and author (Born...

• Grand Duchess

  Elizabeth Fyodorovna (Born 1864).

• Queen Marie

  of Romania (Born 1875).

• Louis Nazaire Begin

  Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop...

• Herman Gummerus

  Finnish historian and politician (Born...

• Vitezslav Novak

  Czech composer (Born 1870).

• Joly Braga Santos

  Portuguese composer and conductor (Born...

• Srinagarindra

  Mother of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of...

• Alfredo Carlo Piatti

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Emile Peynaud

  French oenologist (Born 1912).

• George Caiazzo

  American professional wrestler (Born...

• Jerry Hadley

  American opera singer, (Born 1952).

• Kenji Miyamoto

  Japanese politician (Born 1908).

• Johnny Wayne

  Canadian comedian (Born 1918).

• Marika Nezer

  Greek actress (Born 1906).

• Nico

  German actress, singer and organist, a...

• Jill Balcon

  British actress (Born 1925).

• Henry Allingham

  British supercentenarian and World War I...

• Fabio Taglioni

  Italian motorcycle designer and engineer...

• Kit Guard

  Dies of cancer at 67.

• Eugene Merle Shoemaker

  American astronomer (Born 1928).

• George William Louis Marshall-Hall

  Composer, dies at 53.

• Witold Maliszewski

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Dionyssios Lavrangas

  Composer, dies at 80.

• George A Hartland

  English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at...

• German Germanovich Galinin

  Composer, dies at 44.

• Federico Ghisi

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Stanley Rous

  British soccer official, dies at 91.

• Viktor Louis

  Russian journalist.

• Jan Pelleboer

  Dutch meteorologist.

• Mollie Parnis

  Fashion designer (Mamie Eisenhower).

• Rudolf Ising

  Cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie...

• Yoon Boseon

  President of South Korea (Born 1897).

• Paul Foot

  British journalist (Born 1937).

• Jaime Nuno

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Donnie Moore

  Pitcher (Angels), shoots himself at 35.

• William Westmoreland

  Saxon, South Carolina -- Army General...

• Khosrow Shakibai

  Iranian actor (Born 1944).

• Bill Hicke

  Canadian ice hockey player coach and...

• Karl Menninger

  psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at...

• Bobby Fuller

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist...

• Lionel Daunais

  French-Canadian singer and composer...

• John Beck

  Chicago, Illinois -- Actor (Mark-Dallas,...

• Corneille Heymans

  Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize...

• Vladimir M Kirshon

  Russian playwright, executed at 35.

• Willem J A Kerncamp

  Dutch overseas minister (Islam & Woman),...

• Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili

  Composer, dies at 64.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2017 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber - Despacito
• 2016 Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla - One Dance
• 2015 Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again
• 2014 Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli XCX - Fancy
• 2013 Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
• 2012 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
• 2011 LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
• 2010 Katy Perry - California Gurls
• 2009 The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
• 2008 Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
• 2007 Rihanna - Umbrella
• 2006 Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
• 2005 Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
• 2004 Usher - Burn
• 2003 Beyonce - Crazy In Love
• 2002 Nelly - Hot In Herre
• 2001 Usher - U Remind Me
• 2000 matchbox twenty - Bent
• 1999 Will Smith - Wild Wild West
• 1998 Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine
• 1997 Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You
• 1996 2 Pac - How Do U Want It
• 1995 TLC - Waterfalls
• 1994 All-4-One - I Swear
• 1993 UB40 - Can't Help Falling In Love
• 1992 Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
• 1991 EMF - Unbelievable
• 1990 Glenn Medeiros - She Ain't Worth It
• 1989 Martika - Toy Soldiers
• 1988 Richard Marx - Hold On To The Nights
• 1987 Heart - Alone
• 1986 Genesis - Invisible Touch
• 1985 Duran Duran - A View To A Kill
• 1984 Prince - When Doves Cry
• 1983 The Police - Every Breath You Take
• 1982 Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
• 1981 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
• 1980 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me
• 1979 Donna Summer - Bad Girls
• 1978 Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing
• 1977 Barry Manilow - Looks Like We Made It
• 1976 Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
• 1975 Wings - Listen To What The Man Said
• 1974 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
• 1973 Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
• 1972 Bill Withers - Lean On Me
• 1971 The Raiders - Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)
• 1970 Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
• 1969 Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
• 1968 Hugh Masekela - Grazing In The Grass
• 1967 The Association - Windy
• 1966 Tommy James and the Shondells - Hanky Panky
• 1965 The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
• 1964 The 4 Seasons - Rag Doll
• 1963 Jan & Dean - Surf City
• 1962 Bobby Vinton - Roses Are Red (My Love)
• 1961 Bobby Lewis - Tossin' And Turnin'
• 1960 Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry
• 1959 Paul Anka - Lonely Boy
• 1958 Sheb Wooley - The Purple People Eater
• 1957 Elvis Presley - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
• 1955 Bill Haley and His Comets - (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Ride
• 2015 WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance
• 2014 Paramore - Ain't It Fun
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Linkin Park - Burn It Down
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 The Dirty Heads Featuring Rome - Lay Me Down
• 2009 Linkin Park - New Divide